Sentence examples for expressed a compelling from inspiring English sources

On Monday, Brundtland led thousands on a candleliit vigil through the centre of Oslo as the city expressed a compelling defiance that it would not be cowed by extremism.

Several nurses we interviewed and talked to informally expressed a feeling of being compelled to prioritize because of the overwhelming workload and limited time.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall expressed a hope that, one day, chefs would learn to butcher again and buy the whole animal, which they would be compelled to cook in new ways.

Misogyny, misanthropy, despair - I've heard and embraced them all from this viciously funny US stand-up, because they are his points of access to comic insight, and his means of expressing a wounded idealism I find compelling.

And in his early days as a performer Nicolas Cage was just such a high-wire act, a hero for hire who was fearless in his utter lack of cynicism, an actor so compelled to express a rollicking inner life that you got the feeling directors didn't know where to look when they were filming him.

Not every reader will feel compelled to express a reaction to the author's work.

At every precious consumer touch, marketers must express a brand's promise and compel an action that will drive that promise to a deeper understanding.

In 2005, John Harris reflected on the importance of the event in popularising Britpop; "(as) Blur's "Country House" raced Oasis' "Roll with It" to the top of the charts, just about every voice in the media felt compelled to express an opinion on the freshly inaugurated age of Britpop".

Bono said that his "limited voice" compelled him to search for other ways to express a song's meaning, and here this was the "idea of a flag drained of all colour, the idea of surrender".

"The only technique," the English critic F.R. Leavis wrote in 1957, "is that which compels words to express an intensively personal way of feeling".

"The only technique," the English critic F.R. Leavis wrote in 1957, "is that which compels words to express an intensively personal way of feeling". Intensity is probably useful as a standard; yet it is a variable, and often elusive, quality, possessed by polemicists and by ardent essayists to a greater extent than by others who are equally great.